Demis Hassabis

Let's go back to this idea that Demis, you could just tell he believes this is fate.

This is destiny.

He's got a beautiful way of explaining himself.

The way AI has developed is a bit like the Industrial Revolution.

It developed in a certain way, but that was kind of lucky.

Suppose at the start of the Industrial Revolution, we had found out about energy and engines, but then imagine that there were no coal or oil in the ground.

After all, there didn't have to be.

Dead dinosaurs and ancient trees just waiting there for 60 million years, ready to be dug out?

It's kind of unreasonable if you think about it.

Why wouldn't they just decay in the ground and become useless?

Quite convenient that they didn't.

And maybe that speaks to another conversation we could have about what's really going on here.

Why would we have this coincidence?

The analogy here is the internet has been for AI what coal and oil were for the Industrial Revolution.

You could just literally drill a hole in the ground and get black gold.

Today, we can just download all of the internet.

Neither of these resources had to be there.

The dead dinosaurs are the internet.

Humanity built the internet for a different purpose.

And kind of amazingly, we woke up one day and realized that we've got the equivalent of oil.